Nice. I was about to say, if you were struggling getting players on permanent deals, try loaning them. They may not be there in 12 months time, but I've found it's an easy way to acquire decent talent.

Short term, it's probably the best way to success - unless players want to sign for you permanently.

Well, I do, at least at the beginning, until I found my perfect setting.
I always start with Castolo and Co and use a 4-2-3-1 formation, very defensive and compact, deep defense line, with the purpose of ball possession and build up play through the middle. As soon as I've reached the first league and an average position there (~3rd - 10th place) I change to 4-4-2, offensive play and using wingers. I mostly keep this formation and only switch back to the first when I play big teams, like Barca or Arsenal, for instance..

Still annoyed that the game takes ages to do Negotiations for players so window is useless when players keep rejecting and i can only offer 3 at a time. bring back the old method. far better and easier. one click and result was there none of this wait 5 clicks

Good players you've brought in Nick. Don't know if you have got lucky in your youth team, but bring in a lot of those guys - especially Shimizu. Little japanese guy, who I usually play as a SS (can be played as amf and smf as well), he is DEADLY. Scored about 12 goals and made about the same amount of assists in a season. Extremely good and agile player (agility is 98).

For the first time since PES 5 I have managed to complete 10 season in Master League.

In those ten year I actualy didn't win the league until season 4. This also the first I hadn't won the league (top division or D2) in first season since I started playing pes. Then From there I was practically winning everything rising to be the number 1 ranked team. This season I didn't win every cup losing in the Quarter finals of the FA Cup. I have managed to save up a billion pounds thanks to some very huge sales, but that will decrease when I pay the wages at the end of the month.

My best player by a long way has been a reborn Tamada, the Asian Messi. 98 overall now and still only 25. But my best buy was probably Hamsik. Awesome player. I don't really like having players over 30 but at 33 now he is still there in my team every week.